The public presence and changes in the gender roles of Tamil Hindus and Vietnamese Buddhists in Switzerland
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| This project explores how the formation of immigrant religious communities, their position in public life and changes in gender roles are linked. The interaction of these three things will be investigated taking Tamil Hindus and Vietnamese Buddhists in Switzerland as an example. |
Prof. Dr. Martin Baumann
Religionswissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Luzern
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How Jewish life in Switzerland is changing
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| This project takes a closer look at the latest social, religious and political developments among Jews in Switzerland. It examines changes in the established Jewish communities and institutions, newly founded Jewish initiatives, movements and religious communities and changes in relations between this minority group and the majority society. |
Dr. Daniel Gerson
Institut für Jüdische Studien, Universität Basel
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Orthodox religious communities in Switzerland: reasons for their successful integration
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| The Orthodox religious community is numerically the fourth largest in Switzerland. Yet astonishingly little is known about it. This project will take a closer look at those strategies and practices which have enabled this religious community to integrate with such apparent success. Among the questions of interest will be not only cultural, but also economic and social integration in Swiss society. |
Prof. François Hainard
Institut de sociologie, Université de Neuchâtel
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The perception of Tibetan Buddhism in Swiss institutions
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| Tibetan Buddhism has a very positive image in Switzerland. What are the effects of this largely positive image on Switzerland’s domestic and foreign policies and church policy and on medicine and the sciences? |
Prof. Dr. Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz
Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Universität Bern
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Second and third generation Tibetans in Switzerland
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| This project studies the significance of religion to the way in which immigrant communities in Switzerland develop an identity, taking the Tibetan community in exile as an example. At the core of the study will be the question of to what extent the teachings, practices and festivals of Tibetan Buddhism serve as a source of individual and community orientation among second and third generation Tibetan exiles in Switzerland. |
Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter
Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Universität Bern
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